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Kaff.

backwater, Hicksville, bumfuck (a backwards, boring rural town or village)

4 characters1 syllables approx.Deutsch language

Meaning & usage

noun/kaf/
  1. backwater, Hicksville, bumfuck (a backwards, boring rural town or village)

    colloquial · derogatory · neuter · strong
Where this word comes from

19th century, from Romani gav (“village”), from Sanskrit ग्राम (grāma, “village”). Probably influenced by Rotwelsch kefar, from Hebrew כְּפָר (kfar, “village”); perhaps also by etymology 2 in the sense of “something worthless”. The now common plural in -er probably after Dörfer.

noun/kaf/
  1. chaff

    dated · masculine · neuter · no-plural · strong
  2. junk, rubbish

    broadly · derogatory · masculine · neuter · no-plural · strong
Where this word comes from

From Middle High German kaf, from Old High German kaf, from Proto-West Germanic *kaf.

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